Tas. 4218. 
FUGOSIA HETEROPHYLLA. 
Various-leaved Fugosia. 
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Nat. Ord. Matvace®.—MonapDELPHIA PoLyaNpRIA. 
Gen. Char.  Involucellum hexa-polyphyllum. Calyx quinquefidus, laciniis 
estivatione valvatis. Corolle petala 5, hypogyna, obovato-inzequilatera, unguibus 
imo tubo stamineo adnata, zstivatione convolutiva. Tubus stamineus columne- 
formis, infra apicem nudum, quinquedentatum, /i/amenta plus minus copiosa, 
brevia exserens, anthere reniformes. Ovarium sessile, simplex, tri-quadriloculare. 
Ovula in loculis 4-8, angulo centrali inserta, adscendentia. Sty/us terminalis, 
apice exserta breviter tri-quadrifidus vel indivisus ; stigmata distincta v. conglu- 
tinata. Capsula tri-quadrilocularis, loculicide tri-quadrivalvis, valvis medio sep- 
tiferis. | Semina in loculis pauca y. abortu interdum subsolitaria, reniformia, 
testa crustacea, sinu umbilicata, pilis gossypinis plus minus lanuginosa. Himbryo 
intra albumen parcissimum, mucilaginosum, homotrope arcuatus: cotyledonibus 
foliaceis, sese plicato-involventibus ; radicula infera.—Frutices vel suffrutices in 
America et Africa tropica indigeni ; foliis alternis, petiolatis, integris v. palmatim 
lobatis, stipulis petiolaribus geminis linearibus, pedunculis avillaribus solitaris, 
unifloris, corollis duteis, calycibus granulis nigris punctatis. Endl. 
Fuaosta heterophylla ; caule erecto, foliis ellipticis lanceolatisve integris v. trifi- 
dis trinerviis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis unifloris longitudine folii 
superne incrassatis, calycibus nigro-glandulosis, corolla (flava) basi maculis: 
5 sanguineis pectinatis. 
Fucosra heterophylla. Spach, Hist. des Veget. v. 3. p. 397. 
Repovurea heterophylla. Vent. Hort. Cels. t.11. H.B. K. Nov. Gen. Am. v. 5. 
p.293. De Cand. Prodr. v.1. p.457. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3 p. 309. 
A very pretty shrub, named by Cavanilles in honour of Ber- 
nard Cienfuegos, a Spanish botanist of the 16th century, and now, 
we believe, first cultivated in England, from seeds sent home 
from St. Martha, by our collector, Mr. Purdie, in 1845. At the 
Syon Gardens, where our figure was made, plants flowered in 
October of the same year. ‘The general appearance of the blos- 
soms is not much unlike those of Zurnera ulmifolia; but when 
the centre of the flower is examined, each of the five petals will 
be found to have a rich scarlet or blood-coloured pectinated spot, 
the teeth or rays arranged with the most perfect regularity. Mr. 
Spach has, we think, correctly referred the Redoutea of Ventenast 
MARCH Ist, 1846. 
